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Republican “Adyghe Khase”: we need to celebrate 450th anniversary of Adygeya’s voluntary integration in Russia
19.8.2006
The 450th anniversary of the voluntary integration of Adygeya in Russia, on some preliminary data, would be celebrated in September of the next year. The chairman of the executive committee of the social movement “Adyghe Khase” of the republic Askhad Chirg declared to the journalists of Adygeya mass-media that the executive committee of the organization had unanimously made the decision to participate in the celebrating actions, IА REGNUM correspondent reported.
\”This event, – he said, in particular, – cannot be connected with the Caucasian war of the XIX century. It had occurred much earlier and showed what mutual relations between Russian and Adygs at that time had existed, how Adygs participated in life of the Russian state. We are not the only one who should celebrate this date; for the celebrations in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachaevo-Circassia they also prepare\”. In summary Chirg called up all inhabitants of Adygeya to participate actively in the celebration.
Let’s remind, some days earlier with a protest against the holiday preparation the branch of “Adyghe Khase” of Adygeysk town acted. The text of the protest was spread in the republican structure of the organization, to the governmental newspapers, and was delivered to IА REGNUM correspondent.
According to the head of the branch Aliy Tliap, he was informed that in Maykop the session of the council of “Adyghe Khase” where the protest of the town branch they planned to consider gathered. The council of the organization has 33 persons. However the call about the preparing session was received not from “Adyghe Khase” directly (as it had always been) but from one of the republican authorities. Tliap phoned members of the council and found out that nobody of them was informed about the preparing action. Therefore the executive committee of the organization he headed made decision to not take part in preparing discussion of the protest in Maykop. Now it was found out that the protest was rejected by the executive committee of “Adyghe Khase” (7 people).
IА REGNUM
From “AdygeaNatPress”: Tliap noted also that the town branch had kept its opinion. The branch is going to achieve discussion of the protest with the expanded structure of participants of the movement of “Adyghe Khase” among which as he hoped they would find support. Besides the leader of the branch stated his confidence that the protest should be expressed also by other public organizations of the republic.
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Scientists disapprove Adygeya’s voluntary integration with Russia in XVI century
20.8.2006
Ways of concern to the idea of celebrating of the 450th anniversary of Adygeya’s integration in Russia from the scientific point of view, – that was the question IA REGNUM correspondent addressed the master of historical degree, the head of the department of history of Adygeya republican institute of humanitarian researches Asker Panesh. According to the scientist, his attitude to the problem remained the same it had been, in particular, in 1996-1997. Then the decision to refuse celebrating the 440th anniversary was made. That, in its turn, was based on historic facts remained constant, too. The scientist presented IA REGNUM correspondent the publication in the republican newspaper “The Soviet Adygeya”, dated on October 4th, 1997. The article was entitled “Mutually Advantageous Union”.
In the publication it was told: ” Today there are no bases to speak about voluntary connection (integration) of the western Adygs to Russia. Here the question can be about the military-political agreement directed against the Crimean khans. During the Middle Ages there was a practice of addressing of peoples to stronger states. It spoke necessity of protection against possible aggression. In conditions of the pressure from Turkish and Crimean foreign policies Adygs, alongside with their courageous protection of the Native land, applied to diplomatic means for preservation of their independence”.
“In April, 1996 under the initiative of scientists from the Adygeya republican institute of humanitarian researches, – it was noted further in the article, – devoted to the problem of Russian-Adygeyan relations in the XVI century an expanded session of the academic council took place. Scientists from Moscow, Krasnodar and the Northern Caucasian republics had been invited to the session. All the historians were unanimous that establishment of communications of the western Adygs with the Russian state in the XVI century was dictated by necessity of protection against the Crimean attacks. On the other hand, Moscow was interested in those communications, as they created for it rather favourable strategic initiative in its war against Crimea”.
One of the Moscow scientists who participated in the session of the academic council in Maykop in 1996, – Asker Panesh explained IA REGNUM correspondent, – then director of Domestic history of the Russian Academy of sciences Alexander Novoseltsev was. At the session he said the following: “In my opinion, here we can talk about the certain protection, patronage of the Russian imperial government in relation to other governors. Because we know in practice that the same joined governors of the Northern Caucasus, Kalmykia, and so on, could accept double citizenship, becoming Turkish sultan, Iranian shah, and others. Briefly speaking, that was a very original form of relations that, in my opinion, cannot be defined in any way as a connection of some areas and peoples to the Russian state. But nevertheless, since the 50s, since the time of the well-known anniversary of Kabarda’s integration to Russia, we have such literally shaft wave of “voluntary connection of peoples and areas to Russia”.
Novoseltsev also said about those to whom similar celebratings would be favourable. “As I imagine it to myself, the main characters here were not scientists, no local, neither central ones though they, as a rule, in those or other circumstances were compelled to take part in organization of such sort of the anniversaries. But it was organized and dictated by corresponding ideological heads both in the center, and at the places. That is quite clear, because any anniversary led to that a republic or heads received the certain awards, were given, probably, some additional means in favour of a republic – in general such anniversary had a rather noisy sounding”.
IA REGNUM
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